Beach Hotel Muscat

... from all UK airports and are bookable on-line. There is a wide range of holidays available in many popular and interesting resorts in Europe (Spain, Portugal Italy, Cyprus, Malta and Greece), the Canary Islands (Gran Canaria, La ...

... Mosque , is indeed very grand,and very large and quite a wonderful place to see and experience. It is only open until 11am to the non Muslims, and essential to have head, arms, legs covered for ladies. We spent over an hour seeing both inside and out, wonderful stone ,marble and tiled work. The whole of the Koran is carved into the stone work. Our driver , whose name I never quite grasped had a lots of knowledge to impart as he showed us around. Then to the Sultanate ...

... La prouesse est d'autant plus fabuleuse que les rues iraniennes sont illuminées par les groupes d'étudiantes qui les traversent ; la vie vient de la femme. Elles sourient, rigolent, s'activent à côté d'hommes dont il semblerait que le pouvoir qu'on leur a transmis sans raison (comme cela, comme tel) constitue un "plafond d'humanité" dont l'expression est timide, fade, parfois meme aigrie (la domination a à ce titre fait en Iran un ...

Yesterday morning we had a look around the administrative center of Muscat, visited the well-made Omani museum, the museum on french-omani relations and say the sultan's palace. We were permanently surrounded by European tourists which crowded the city coming from the Costa Europa cruise ship which was stopping in the port. In the afternoon I realized that people here are used to spending a fair amount of time in their cars, driving from one place to another, no ...

... and not doing too shabby a job from what we could see. Oman has very little oil money too. The Omani's are mad keen on soccer and the soccer 'fields' are found in the most unlikely places - one we came across was cut into the side of a steep mountain and was completely gravel - we would have mistaken it for a car park if not for the goal posts at each end. In one of some repute part of the goal keepers brief is to keep out the in-coming tide, in another the ...

... big news here: this is a Cat 5 Hurricane we're getting, potentially very deadly. If the story has managed to break into the airwaves where you are, you've probably only heard speculations about the OIL. And this makes me very sad. Please don't forget about your fellow human beings here in Arabia (and I am disgusted to have to advertise the fact that many of us are Western expats, by the way).

... if someone can help me out I would be grateful as I really have no clue. UPDATE - A random viewer of Travelpod just educated me that they are Muslim Pilgrims going for Hajj to Saudi Arabia. Thanks to him. One other thing I did notice was that at the front of the newspapers instead of having the weather forecast - which would presumably just say ¨It´s going to be hot again today folks¨ - it has the crude oil prices and how they´ve changed from the previous day.

... After the 5 hour drive plus a few hours for the stops we arrived in Muscat in the early evening. After finding accommodations we headed out to experience the Muscat nightlife. To our disappointment the nightlife in Muscat was really tame (or the few places we went to were a little lame). The most interesting thing were the locals in the bars, which is something you don't see in the UAE. The ...